Today, was Owen's 100th day of school!  During this year he has adjusted to two different classess, two different teachers and two very different places.  High fives Owen for making it this many days!

The waiting is over!

As many of you know our furniture was to arrive in Germany long ago, but the company forgot to ship it soooo we waited and waited to see our things from home.  On Thursday it finally arrived and boy were we excited! 

Here it is!!

Meg LOVES her kitchen and has asked for it everyday since we have arrived in Germany.  She was beyond happy to see it!

Real beds!  Our air mattress have served us well, we have used them for 9 months but we did a victory dance when we got to unplug, deflate and roll up those babies!  We were all so thankful to see our real beds!

 It deserves a picture by itself.  The almighty mattress!

Bowling with the Unit!

The other night we got to go bowling with Pascal's unit.  The kids bowled for 2 hours and were still bummed that we had to leave.  Meg especially loved it, she could have played all night!

Score!

Meg and I found this little goodie at the Recycling center.  With some training wheels I think Meg will be good to go!   She was thrilled! 

German Cuisine

Pascal LOVES German food! He also loves to order something off a german menu having no idea what he ordered and wait in anticipation as to what will arrive.  Well, today was no different he ordered in german having no idea what he was gettting and the very famous sausage and sauerkraut was brought to the table.  Pascal was thrilled! Owen on the other hand was not! 

Owen loved skiing so much that he was sad when it was time to go.  I think he'll be flying down these slopes some day!

The Car Train

Skiing in Switzerland!

We made our way only 5 and 1/2 hours to the Alps for some skiing. 

Once there we were fitted for our boots!

Ready and waiting to catch the train up to the Alps.

Here we are!  Beautiful day with lots of sun, so much we got sunburned!

Princess Meg

This is what Meg decided to wear to run errands.

I told her that was perfect but I didn't think we would need the sword! 

All Things Crafty

I saw they were having a free Valentine Craft offered at the Library for kids so I signed us up. Meg loves crafts!  She is all about glitter, stickers, markers and paper.

Can you tell she is loving this!

I turned around to see Owen doing this!  He is all things NOT crafty.  I thought it was so funny that a little crowd of boys was forming, apparently he is not the only one. 

The finished product.... a heart mobile.

So proud!

Mr. Six

Last week when we got Owen's bike back into working order I noticed he had almost out grown it.  So I remember thinking it won't be long before he needs a bigger bike, well God heard that thought and took care of us because on our weekly visit to the Thrift store on base I found this little ditty for $25!  I was so excited becuase it is a german made kids bike with a bell, front head light, back light, hand breaks and fenders to boot!  Thought it was super cool but would it fit in the little honda?  Well, Meg and I are regulars at the thrift store so the lady said I could try to fit it into the car before I bought it.  It also gave me a chance to ride it in the parking lot.  I know you would have love to have seen that!  But it wouldn't fit into the trunk.  What to do...What to do....???  Well, There is not much these days that I won't try to figure out so I decided to put it in the backseat and the kids would just have to somehow put their legs around it, I wasn't going to let this treasure pass us up and so with some shoving and a little hard work it was in!! And the little german bike was ours! 

Isn't it grand!  Mr. Six was pleased!

Our livingroom gets a lot of sun so I found Meg watching a movie with her sunglasses on. upside down of couse!

Ride, Recycle and Rejoice

 Recycling is a must in Germany, which is good because I needed to be doing this long ago and was too lazy.  I am finding I like to recycle, it is just a good thing to do and they have a huge recycling center on base which makes it very easy.  They even have a building where if you don't have something you want you can donate it, then anyone in the community (like me) can come and get it for free!  I got both Owen and Meg rain boots for free.... I repeat for free!  Yea! so today's post is about recycling.

This is our favorite grocery store just down the road where they have a machine which my kids call, "the smasher."  You insert your used plastic bottles, it smashes them  (they love this part) and then out pops a little receipt that pays you for recycling.  Love it!

Meg inserting a bottle into, "the smasher"

Our bottles to be smashed.

I like to think the Army is making me into a "get it done,"  "make it happen," "no big deal" kinda gal.  Owen has so been wanting to ride his bike, but the seat was too low, the tires were flat and we didn't have a helmet.  So we set off this morning and got a helmet, walked to the gas station where I pumped up his tires using a german air thingy, and got a wrench and fixed his seat! The motivation to get some energy out of this 6 year old was also helpful.